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Your Gifts Matter
Bertram and Bain Receive James W. Taylor Excellence Teaching Awards
By Meranda M. Masse Department Communications & Graduate Student (Cavagnero) The Department of Chemistry has chosen two recipients for the James W. Taylor Excellence Teaching Award – Professor …
Chemistry students win numerous awards
It was a busy year for awards, despite the constraints of a pandemic. In May, the Department of Chemistry celebrated students, faculty and staff with an online awards and graduation event called Celebrating Student Success. Because of generous donors, the department was able to give almost $500,000 in student support. See the winners of department and other awards below.
Connecting Science and Society: Science is Fun
Our public engagement programs reach large audiences in person, on the radio, in print, via television, social media and the internet. The Science is Fun truck traveled to schools, libraries, farmers markets, public parks and other community centers.
Instructors, students find benefits in virtual learning
This year’s pandemic-induced online instruction did not stop students from enrolling in chemistry courses, but it did give instructors and teaching assistants (TAs) experience using a different instructional medium. “Teaching CHEM 344 online was definitely a unique experience,” said TA Maggie McEwan. “Teaching online requires a different set of skills compared to teaching in a classroom or lab, so I think I learned a lot this summer right along with the students.”
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Meet the Badger Chemists You Help
Prof. Susanna Widicus Weaver brings a love of chemistry and expertise in astronomy
Vozza Professor of Chemistry Susanna Widicus Weaver arrived at UW–Madison in May to conduct research in prebiotic astrochemistry and on how life may form with the evolution of stars and planets. Weaver received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Illinois Wesleyan University (2000) and her Ph.D. in chemistry at California Institute of Technology (2005). She most recently was a professor of chemistry at Emory University.
Postdoc starts world-wide literature discussions
Morgan Howe, a new addition to Sam Pazicni’s group at the UW–Madison chemistry department, began her postdoctoral fellowship with a bang! She initiated a popular online literature discussion group, filling a need for chemists across the world to connect and learn virtually.
Grad Spotlight: Princess Merenini
Princess Merenini, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, was one of the 2019 Pei Wang Fellowship award recipients. The Pei Wang Fellowship honors the late Pei Wang (Ph.D. 1952, chemistry) by gifting this award to honorable graduate students at UW–Madison. Merenini is an international student from Nigeria. She moved to the United States in 2016 to pursue her undergraduate education at Savannah State University (SSU). Growing up in Nigeria, Merenini was taught that there were only four “prestigious” career paths: medicine, law, engineering and pharmacy.
Undergrad Spotlight: Jennifer Sowin
Jennifer Sowin is an undergraduate chemistry major, who came to UW-Madison from St. Francis Xavier High School in Appleton, WI. What led you to the University of Wisconsin-Madison? …
Undergrad Spotlight: Wenqi Shen
Wenqi Shen, a first-generation undergraduate majoring in biochemistry, came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Beijing No.80 High School in China. What led you to the University of Wisconsin-Madison? …
Grad Spotlight: Nicholas M. Riley
Nicholas M. Riley is a graduate student from Louisville, KY, who attended the University of South Carolina as an undergraduate. He currently works with the Coon Research Group. Tell …
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Meet The Directors of Development
Kim Bair
Position title: Senior Director of Development
Email: Kim.bair@supportuw.org
Phone: 608.308.5233
Address:
UW Foundation
1848 University Ave
Madison, WI 53726
Nick Jaeger
Position title: Managing Senior Director of Development
Email: nick.jaeger@supportuw.org
Phone: 608.308.5321
Address:
UW Foundation
1848 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53726
Advancement Committee
Judith N. Burstyn
Position title: Irving Shain Chair of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry
Email: burstyn@chem.wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.0328 lab, 608.262.8005 chair's office
Kim Bair
Position title: Senior Director of Development
Email: Kim.bair@supportuw.org
Phone: 608.308.5233
Kayla Driscoll
Position title: Assistant to the Chair
Email: kayla.driscoll@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.1480
Nick Jaeger
Position title: Managing Senior Director of Development
Email: nick.jaeger@supportuw.org
Phone: 608.308.5321
Tatum Lyles Flick
Position title: Senior University Relations Specialist
Email: elyles@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.265.9814
